18Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Ecclesiastes 9:18 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 13-18)Solomon still recommends wisdom to us as necessary to the preserving of our peace and the perfecting of our business, notwithstanding the vanities and crosses which human affairs are subject to. He had said (Eccl. 9:11), Bread is not always to the wise ; yet he would not therefore be thought either to disparage, or to discourage, wisdom, no, he still retains his principle, that wisdom excels folly...
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